Yale University has warned that the impact of tariffs on prices could push as many as 875,000 Americans into poverty.

New census data show how poverty in America looked before the Trump administration’s megabill made historic cuts to Medicaid ...

Philadelphia has shed its label as the "poorest big city in America." Why it matters: The city's decadeslong fight against ...

More older Americans were living in poverty in 2024, new data on income, poverty, and health insurance released by the Census ...

We learned Tuesday that a record number of Americans are living in poverty, and that the poverty rate--15.1 percent--rose for the fourth straight year. But those raw numbers leave out some key details ...

Tariffs disproportionately slam low-income Americans, who already live paycheck to paycheck and can’t afford to lose out on ...

Poverty is down in Kentucky, new federal data shows, though the percent of Kentuckians living in poverty exceeds the national ...

A recent poll reveals that most Americans have differing views on the root cause of homelessness, but most think the ...

Reverend Dr. William Barber II speaks to marchers during the Mass Poor People's & Low-Wage Workers' Assembly on June 29, 2024 in Washington, DC. Credit - Jemal Countess/Getty Images But the reality of ...

A few weeks before his death in 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke about the “other America” to a union group in New York. In his remarks, he condemned the structural nature of poverty, saying ...